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Kyle Ellison

Kyle Ellison

Kyle Ellison has followed incarceration issues since 1972 when he became a Kentucky Department of Corrections probation and parole officer in Louisville. He worked for the Department of Corrections for 16 years. Seven of those years were as a training officer for prison and jail staff all over the state, giving him the chance to research the prison history of Kentucky.

Commentary

Emotion not evidence fuels rush to lock up even more Kentuckians
By: - June 18, 2024

House Bill 5, the “Safer Kentucky Act,” is emotion-based legislation, rather than the evidence-based legislation Kentucky deserves. Legislators and research organizations who presented data and asked hard questions were stonewalled at every step of development of this legislation, which became law over Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto. Kentucky has the eighth harshest criminal sentencing statutes in […]